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Looking back, perhaps inspired by Ismail, I realize I actually tore a page from the Bombay hustler's own play book.

Richard C. Morais: Why Joan Collins and I talked About Porn's Profit Margins 2010

Looking back, perhaps inspired by Ismail, I realize I actually tore a page from the Bombay hustler's own play book.

Richard C. Morais: Why Joan Collins and I talked About Porn's Profit Margins Richard C. Morais 2010

But Gawande has something to sell in this new book, and the hustler's hat fits him awkwardly -- especially when he ventures beyond the hospital to construction companies, restaurants, and investment banks.

Kathryn Schulz: Check, Please: Atul Gawande's The Checklist Manifesto 2010

Looking back, perhaps inspired by Ismail, I realize I actually tore a page from the Bombay hustler's own play book.

Richard C. Morais: Why Joan Collins and I talked About Porn's Profit Margins 2010

The heart that struggles with disappointment and sadness believes too easily that hope is a lie, a fraud, another hustler's pitch to the next sucker walking down the street.

RJ Eskow: Phantom America, Thanks For Nothing! 2009

Ron, my boss 'boss, with a future in the Gold Street HDA hierarchy if he ever cut his coke use, spoke these words in a hustler's patter, trying to spark my sympathetic side.

Elsie's World 2009

"In any jungle, the hustler's every waking hour is lived with the knowledge that if he ever relaxes, the other hungry, restless foxes, ferrets, wolves and vultures won't hesitate to make him their prey."

Dana Kennedy: Paris X 2008

Or do you get, as I do, a sense that the Palm Beach events have become a fee-generating, T-shirt-manufacturing, media-hysterics hustler's holiday?

Palm Beach Runaround 2008

The Iraq recovery plan and post-Katrina reclamation are each a partisan cesspool and hustler's paradise precisely because this is where failed apparatchiks go to die - like faded showbiz luminaries to Las Vegas - where they can loll about at stud and luxuriate in their own muck.

Paul Cullum: Chickens Come Home To Roost 2008

The songs were narratives about the street hustler's life of drug dealing and murder - a lifestyle Cube and Dre never lived.

'Straight Outta Compton,' 20 Years Later 2007